Funeral services for James E. Jones, 77, of Longview, will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 5, 2008, at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, with Bishop Jonathan Talbot officiating. Interment will follow in Lakeview Memorial Gardens, under the direction of Rader Funeral Home of Longview.
Mr. Jones, a retired machinist for Vought Aircraft Corp., passed away on Tuesday, July 1, 2008, at a medical facility in Longview.
A native of Brooks in Panola County, he had been a resident of Gregg County since 1954, when he and his wife and family moved to Kilgore. Mr. Jones was the seventh son and ninth child of 10 children born to Thomas Orlander and Alice Estell Hill Jones. He attended school at Brooks and Carthage, but had to quit in the eighth grade in order to help support his widowed mother and his siblings. However, he later received his G.E.D. and did some course work at Kilgore Junior College.
He married Josephine Tate on June 3, 1949, in Henderson. After the family moved to Kilgore, he worked as a sprayer for Kilgore Ceramics and then he worked as a machinist for LeTourneau in Longview before joining LTV, a manufacturer of airplane parts. He worked for LTV for 24 years at the Gregg County plant and the Grand Prairie facility.
The Jones family joined The Church of Christ of Latter-Day Saints in 1954. His current callings included being a ward missionary.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Josie, in 1992; six brothers; and one sister.
Mr. Jones married Anelle Dugan Jones, a former reporter for the Kilgore News Herald, in 1993.
Survivors include his wife, Anelle; two daughters, Mary Robinson of Dallas and Judy Davis of Pleasant Grove, Utah; four sons, Ronnie and Daniel Jones, both of Dallas, Ed Jones of Longview, and James "Gene" Jones of McKinney; two sisters, Bea Maddox of Palestine and Margaret Thomas of Lufkin; 18 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.
Mr. Jones, a retired machinist for Vought Aircraft Corp., passed away on Tuesday, July 1, 2008, at a medical facility in Longview.
A native of Brooks in Panola County, he had been a resident of Gregg County since 1954, when he and his wife and family moved to Kilgore. Mr. Jones was the seventh son and ninth child of 10 children born to Thomas Orlander and Alice Estell Hill Jones. He attended school at Brooks and Carthage, but had to quit in the eighth grade in order to help support his widowed mother and his siblings. However, he later received his G.E.D. and did some course work at Kilgore Junior College.
He married Josephine Tate on June 3, 1949, in Henderson. After the family moved to Kilgore, he worked as a sprayer for Kilgore Ceramics and then he worked as a machinist for LeTourneau in Longview before joining LTV, a manufacturer of airplane parts. He worked for LTV for 24 years at the Gregg County plant and the Grand Prairie facility.
The Jones family joined The Church of Christ of Latter-Day Saints in 1954. His current callings included being a ward missionary.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Josie, in 1992; six brothers; and one sister.
Mr. Jones married Anelle Dugan Jones, a former reporter for the Kilgore News Herald, in 1993.
Survivors include his wife, Anelle; two daughters, Mary Robinson of Dallas and Judy Davis of Pleasant Grove, Utah; four sons, Ronnie and Daniel Jones, both of Dallas, Ed Jones of Longview, and James "Gene" Jones of McKinney; two sisters, Bea Maddox of Palestine and Margaret Thomas of Lufkin; 18 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services for James E. Jones, 77, of Longview, will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 5, 2008, at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, with Bishop Jonathan Talbot officiating. Interment will follow in Lakeview Memorial Gardens, under the direction of Rader Funeral Home of Longview.
Mr. Jones, a retired machinist for Vought Aircraft Corp., passed away on Tuesday, July 1, 2008, at a medical facility in Longview.
A native of Brooks in Panola County, he had been a resident of Gregg County since 1954, when he and his wife and family moved to Kilgore. Mr. Jones was the seventh son and ninth child of 10 children born to Thomas Orlander and Alice Estell Hill Jones. He attended school at Brooks and Carthage, but had to quit in the eighth grade in order to help support his widowed mother and his siblings. However, he later received his G.E.D. and did some course work at Kilgore Junior College.
He married Josephine Tate on June 3, 1949, in Henderson. After the family moved to Kilgore, he worked as a sprayer for Kilgore Ceramics and then he worked as a machinist for LeTourneau in Longview before joining LTV, a manufacturer of airplane parts. He worked for LTV for 24 years at the Gregg County plant and the Grand Prairie facility.
The Jones family joined The Church of Christ of Latter-Day Saints in 1954. His current callings included being a ward missionary.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Josie, in 1992; six brothers; and one sister.
Mr. Jones married Anelle Dugan Jones, a former reporter for the Kilgore News Herald, in 1993.
Survivors include his wife, Anelle; two daughters, Mary Robinson of Dallas and Judy Davis of Pleasant Grove, Utah; four sons, Ronnie and Daniel Jones, both of Dallas, Ed Jones of Longview, and James "Gene" Jones of McKinney; two sisters, Bea Maddox of Palestine and Margaret Thomas of Lufkin; 18 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.
Mr. Jones, a retired machinist for Vought Aircraft Corp., passed away on Tuesday, July 1, 2008, at a medical facility in Longview.
A native of Brooks in Panola County, he had been a resident of Gregg County since 1954, when he and his wife and family moved to Kilgore. Mr. Jones was the seventh son and ninth child of 10 children born to Thomas Orlander and Alice Estell Hill Jones. He attended school at Brooks and Carthage, but had to quit in the eighth grade in order to help support his widowed mother and his siblings. However, he later received his G.E.D. and did some course work at Kilgore Junior College.
He married Josephine Tate on June 3, 1949, in Henderson. After the family moved to Kilgore, he worked as a sprayer for Kilgore Ceramics and then he worked as a machinist for LeTourneau in Longview before joining LTV, a manufacturer of airplane parts. He worked for LTV for 24 years at the Gregg County plant and the Grand Prairie facility.
The Jones family joined The Church of Christ of Latter-Day Saints in 1954. His current callings included being a ward missionary.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Josie, in 1992; six brothers; and one sister.
Mr. Jones married Anelle Dugan Jones, a former reporter for the Kilgore News Herald, in 1993.
Survivors include his wife, Anelle; two daughters, Mary Robinson of Dallas and Judy Davis of Pleasant Grove, Utah; four sons, Ronnie and Daniel Jones, both of Dallas, Ed Jones of Longview, and James "Gene" Jones of McKinney; two sisters, Bea Maddox of Palestine and Margaret Thomas of Lufkin; 18 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.
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